trfella Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 (edited) Thanks to the wonderful Google maps street level, what looks to be a TR4 or 5 in primrose is shown outside the owners house in Harpenden... complete with your post code. This was posted on another motoring forum, as some bright spark decided to start a thread on car spotting Be warned chaps PM me for more info. I've reported the thread to the mods on there - hopefully they will see sense. Edited March 14, 2010 by trfella Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Elliott Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 When the Google van went past our house last May, I was sanding the doors of our 1993 Honda and my neighbour was painting another door. See for yourselves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TR 2100 Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Thanks to the wonderful Google maps street level, what looks to be a TR4 or 5 in primrose is shown outside the owners house in Harpenden... complete with your post code. This was posted on another motoring forum, as some bright spark decided to start a thread on car spotting Be warned chaps I've reported the thread to the mods on there - hopefully they will see sense. The dangers are obvious - a timely warning to all. BUT - if the mods simply remove the posting, the criminals will still know about it but the innocent will not. Better to have everyone know about the dangers. AlanR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Big Brother Google needs a few bombs under his spy cars. Something useful for the Irish dissident whatevers to apply themselves to, keep themselves in practice for the next round of political shenanigans ? At least the stuff is well out of date, as I can see from the shots of my garages and parking lots . . . . and my garden is long enough for the house and garages to be under different postcodes Cheers, Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stansoldman Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Hi Guys There is a section on Google maps where you can request the image of your premises to be removed. I have done this as I feel it is very invasive. If you look at the image of your property and click on the link at the bottom, you can remove your image, they will ask a few question as to why you want to be removed, but hey a small price to pay and within a few days your property cannot be viewed. I know this is a pain, but if we all did it across the globe, Google would have wasted there time in driving around the streets wasting time and money Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red 6 Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 The car in my driveway has long gone and I am about to paint the front door a different colour so that will confuse the thieves. I actually think that if you are a thief, whether or not google shows a particular car to be in a driveway is irrelevant, if google can drive along your street so can the car thieves. I dont think google pictures will cause many sleepless nights for the sensible. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Elliott Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 When Google announced that their house photos were now available in the Montreal area, they (or someone else) put up a photo of a very nice house that they said was a Google photo taken by their van in London, England. From the sidewalk there was a very high stone wall with a complex and very fancy ironwork decoration up that wall. We could see a guy climbing up the fancy ironwork. A note added that when the family came home that evening, they found that a robber had been in the house. Someone mentioned to them and to the police that they had seen this house on Google. The final part of the story it that the police tracked down the robber from the photo of him clibming the wall in the Google photo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hensh2004 Posted March 16, 2010 Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 I looked on google sreet today, and dam me there,s my tr on the drive , i only rolled the thing out about three times last summer due to on going work with it .Typical!!!I might get my house removed of google street just in case. Andy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trfella Posted March 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) Well, the mods clearly don't give a damn, and have let the thread continue. My concerns were some of the rare cars posted on there on people's driveways. I didn't have a problem with dealer stock or someone out in their P&J, but a very large motoring forum linking to people's addresses I didn't feel comfortable with. There you go then... Democracy. Edited March 16, 2010 by trfella Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red 6 Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Why on earth would anyone want to stop this thr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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